Chilly Gray May overcast skies greeted the energetic team of monthly bird surveyors James Kendall (camera & scope), Dave Telford (camera), Sharon Telford and Betty Kanne as scribe. An explosion of colorful flowering plants and new bright green foliage throughout the Urban Forest and adjacent planted areas belied the otherwise somber early-morning weather. Each of [...]
The Black Phoebe is a dapper black and white flycatcher that seems comfortable living close to people, so long as a fresh water source is nearby. It’s a year-round familiar feature in tree filled neighborhoods, flowering gardens, verdant parks and stream sides where it perches on low branches or shrubs lying in wait for an [...]
The Red-tailed Hawk is one of the most conspicuous and widespread large birds of prey in North America. If you spot a big solitary raptor perched high in erect posture along a roadside or field edge, it’s quite likely a Red-tailed Hawk. It thrives in open woodlands and fields where it can be seen lazily [...]
The weather today was cold, in the 50s, overcast but calm. Lena Hayashi, Betty Kanne (eBird), Jim Kendall, Dave and Sharon Telford, Brenda Sabin, Debra Gala, Deborah Brin, and Brian Bleecker counted all the birds heard and seen in the Urban Forest. The overcast skies didn’t dull the vibrant colors of the spring blooms throughout [...]
The Great Horned Owl is a habitually successful, resident breeding bird species in Huntington Central Park. Multiple groves of mature trees and open foraging areas provide an ideal habitat for these highly secretive nocturnal birds of prey. Great Horned Owls, like many raptors, are thought to be monogamous and mate for life. The distinctive, low, [...]
